Nine weeks!!!

Just hit nine weeks yesterday, and I am delighted!!! Only three weeks to go and I'll be at 12 weeks, which will be a relief! Monday and Tuesday I felt pretty good. Not terrific, but good- up all day, baked, cleaned the house... and that had me worried. Siobhan told me not to worry, she'd had that happen occasionally, and it usually came back with a vengeance. She was right! I was much relieved yesterday to find that I felt awful again. And continued to feel icky the entire day and all the way through this morning. My sweet man made me breakfast and straightened up for me, and I am very happy to report that his coke-and-chocolate-chip-mint float worked wonders! When I started nothing sounded even remotely okay, and by the time I finished I felt good enough to get up and actually eat the breakfast! Guess he figured both those things sometimes helped, so combined they'd do even better. :-)
So I believe our baby is now the size of an olive. Fortunately, I don't much like olives unless they are the black kind and either sliced or chopped. And the one on the website demonstrating the size was distinctly a whole, green olive. I had to find my little pro-life hands pin because that is a 10 week baby, and we are getting really close at 9 weeks! I will have to take a bump picture and post it here soon. Now that both Nichole and Shannon have posted theirs, I feel compelled. :-) However, I am slightly embarrassed to admit my bump is about twice the size. I've tried coming up with explanations for this, and the best I can do is the twin theory. I like that one, personally! Really, I was getting almost flat before I got pregnant! Of course there was the extra med. weight, but I don't know if that would have anything to do with it.... I thought the bigger you were the longer it took to show? Anyhow, I will try and get a pic taken soon and post it, and then you can comment away. :-)
Right now, when I feel like eating, I mostly want two things-- beans and meat. Especially meat right now. Slabs of meat, hunks of meat, many forms of meat... I've finished off all the chicken (besides chicken patties... gross!), ate the steak, and am most the way through the second package of ground beef. The other thing I want is lasagna... with sausage. Cottage cheese and meat mixed deliciously... heavenly! I sense a protein craving here. That's good I suppose, but I think a grocery run will be in order here soon. The midwife suggested dumping protein powder into a milkshake. Not protein powder as a main source of it, but as a "I'm too sick most the time to eat anything and the few times I can I'm not coming anywhere close to 90g" remedy. Sounds like it might be worth trying, at least for the next few weeks until I can just plain eat it in regular forms.